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do you ever find left over notes in shopping torlleys or elsewhere? i

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codnotamod · 13/01/2006 09:40

i am vaguely intrigued by these as identified in teh times
"Discarded notes are rubbish to most people, but not for worldwide subscribers to Found, which reprints them. The magazine?s publisher, Davy Rothbart, gets bundles sent to his office in Michigan. Laura Kwerel, a radio producer in Washington, was ?overwhelmed? after reading one issue. ?I realise now,? she says, ?that there is more humanity in a discarded grocery list than in a thousand-page novel.? Some people need to get out more. "
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cod · 28/01/2006 17:28

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SoupDragon · 28/01/2006 17:27

There are never any lists at out waitrose. I saw one promising trolley where the shopper had their list pinned to the clipboard thing but I lost track of them in the carpark and it was too cold to search all the trolley bays. Lots of interesting ones being held by dads/husbands doing the shopping but couldn't very well snatch them out of their hands...

cod · 28/01/2006 17:24

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cod · 28/01/2006 17:15

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cod · 28/01/2006 17:12

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cod · 28/01/2006 17:12

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BearintheBigBlueHouse · 28/01/2006 16:45

do you feel dirty somehow? does she think less of you? would you care?

DW gave me a mouthful this morning about my involvement in this project - I quipped back about Harpsichord's Arts Council Grant - her witty riposte? "You sure it's not an Arse Council Grant?" As you can imagine diner a deux in this house is rip-roaring, we can barely sip our wine for ROFLing

seriously I think we do need to publish this to justify its inherent sordidness (would MN let us have copyright back dya think?) - look how much dosh Simon Hoggart's made out of his Christmas round robins compendiums(a)

cod · 28/01/2006 16:17

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BearintheBigBlueHouse · 28/01/2006 13:59

yesterday's other one (need to go to store later so may be more)

page of yellow 10cm sq notepad, older lady's handwriting, black felt narrow tip for first 5 items, blue narrow bic for last three (handwriting noticeably more tired and emotional for final three)

Chicken breast
2 Onions
Green pepper
1 Red chilli
Lunch (good call - you don't want any of that real food do you - go for something quick and packaged)
Gran wine (eh? - wine for Gran or the kind of wine that Grans like, Hock, Liebfraumilch etc - who knows)
Grapes
Brown Muscavado
Tomti (TBH I think this is tomatoes scrawled)

maybe like the full english in a can you can buy Lunch in a can - never seen it mind

hasta luego Listers

Pruni · 28/01/2006 10:04

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harpsichordenvy · 28/01/2006 09:28

this thread should get a grant from the Arts Council
cod-ly genius

wilbur · 28/01/2006 09:21

Finally found one in a basket at Sainsburys on Thiursday but forgot to post it. So excited, here it is:

Milk x 2 - red not green
Scourer
Lemons
Grapes
Mag for B

I reckon B is in hosp and grapes and mag are for her. Do we think list writer is on diet, wanting skimmed milk not semi?

SoupDragon · 28/01/2006 08:59

Clearly Bear's last list maker is, in fact, one of the 3 bears who is expecting to make lots of oatmeal porridge, burn it onto the pan which the dishwasher will be unable to remove sufficiently requiring the application of a brillo pad. Simple.

BearintheBigBlueHouse · 27/01/2006 23:35

Puff's celery salt, bouillon and SDToms has got to be the poshest so far - I'm leaving my lobster, Veuve and Duchy Originals Butterscotch Shortbread list in every torlley tomorrow so everyone knows how effin well-heeled I am

BOB - from bitter experience, good lookin chickens promise more than they deliver

night then

BearintheBigBlueHouse · 27/01/2006 23:29

dishwater tablets
oatmeal
brillo

have spent the guts of 6 hours thinking of something, anything, to say about that

sorry

babyonboard · 27/01/2006 23:21

heehee, glad you all find it funny too
me and dp have had many conversations and laughing over that list but them felt a bit crazy teeheeh, i would love to meet the person that wrote it, teehehheee

ShaysMummy · 27/01/2006 23:21

really hope someone finds my 'spineless' turd list ! lol

WideWebWitch · 27/01/2006 23:13

That posh and crap list is fantastic, thanks, I am sitting here sniggering.

Cabe · 27/01/2006 21:57

370 posts on here now Cod! I've only just managed to log on - anyone else had problems tonight?

Serenity - Of course! Taste the Difference! Thanks

The posh and crappy list is hilarious!
Waitrose for Mange - don't let it get too near the chickens or they won't be good looking for long!

Bear... Waiting in anticipation Your local stores have loads of list leavers... they seem to be far more jealous of them round here.

BearintheBigBlueHouse · 27/01/2006 19:20

I get out every day - to the store.

Got a couple earlier, but they're with forensics ATM, maybe share later.

Saw a great one on a row of torlleys being pushed by a spotty youth (I was once that soldier) and thought he'd think it odd if I broke off from dragging a screaming (top of lungs stylee along the lines of 'You carry me', when that was never going to happen, me with shopping bags and all) 2 year old and an away-with-the-fairies-so-just-might-walk-into-a-car 4 year old across the car park, to ask him to stop so I could have someone else's list from his torlleys. D'oh. It looked great and all - with doodles!!!

purpleturtle · 27/01/2006 19:15

You def need to get out more, Bear!

BearintheBigBlueHouse · 27/01/2006 19:11

bin & freezer

misdee · 27/01/2006 19:11

Bin bags?

the f i am stuck on.

Miaou · 27/01/2006 19:09

What are "b bags" and "f bags", I wonder?

babyonboard · 27/01/2006 18:52

lol..
i used to use the ' i forgot my kit' line at school until i was handed a pair of tiny mud soaked shorts and a stinky boys rugby shirt and told to put it on

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